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Moses went back to 1Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, "Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive." And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
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And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, for 2all the men who were seeking your life are dead."
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So Moses took 3his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took 4the staff of God in his hand.
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And the LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the 5miracles that I have put in your power. But 6I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.
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Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the LORD, 7Israel is my 8firstborn son,
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and I say to you, "Let my son go that he may serve me." If you refuse to let him go, behold, I 9will kill your firstborn son.'"
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At a lodging place on the way 10the LORD met him and 11sought to put him to death.
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Then 12Zipporah took a 13flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!"
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So he let him alone. It was then that she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
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The LORD said to Aaron, "Go into the wilderness 14to meet Moses." So he went and met him at the 15mountain of God and kissed him.
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And Moses 16told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all 17the signs that he had commanded him to do.
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Then Moses and Aaron 18went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.
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19Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.
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And the people 20believed; and when they heard that the LORD had 21visited the people of Israel and that he had 22seen their affliction, 23they bowed their heads and worshiped.